We love shutters and installing DIY ones can be simple if you know how. Inside Mounted shutters are the most stylish in our opinion, but they are slightly trickier to deal with, and this simple guide will help you to do your own installation!
Windows pimp projects and inspiration
Some of the more outlandish, expressive and stylish window pimping we've been commissioned to install, source or just seen around for inspiration to our visitors. Don't hold back either, have a great read through here, we'll show you highlights from shutters, blinds, curtains and a crazy mismash of materials, like wood, vinyl, rubber and even some futuristic materials which we think are a first in window coverings! Don't forget to get in touch if you want our custom service for interior design.
The first thing we wanted to demonstrate was this picture showing how plantation shutters are made as this really is hte bread and butter of understanding why they are so great as a window treatment. We'll be adding similar ones of blinds and curtains, although they are generally much easier to understand, so we might hold off for a while on explaining those!
Union Jack Custom Shutters
This image shows a bespoke piece that was commissioned from a shutter company for a private home in the South UK. We all know about canvas printing or custom wallpapers, but this gorgeous shutter enlivens the home of a regular Jo in England. They wanted to pimp their windows and had some pretty reasonable wooden blinds up in the first place.
Classic White Shutters – Pimped by us!
There are few window coverings as classic as white shutters. In the USA you can see an example of designer white shutters here. Many home owners opt for wooden shutters as a resurgence in this historical and classic window dressing returns to fashion. There are so many suppliers of shutters that we would recommend you look somewhere like here…
Lightwells and introducing more light to below ground without windows
We work in towns and cities like most people living around our populated planet. Many of the properties we are asked to come and see have basement flats or cellars which are on the whole dark and gloomy. In Europe they managed to think ahead slightly more and many properties have a cellar, in the UK we’re just realising what a premium land is (house prices anyone?) and missed the opportunity to go underground on a national scale. Those of us who are lucky enough to have underground spaces will often need more light coming into them. Those who haven’t find extending their homes downwards during the property goldrush times, is a really expensive post development procedure. The Telegraph has a great article on lightwells here.
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